CDC to Invest $2.1 Billion to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers

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Billions from CDC to Ramp Up U.S. Infection Prevention and Control IPC protects patients and healthcare workers from infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 & future threats

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a $2.1 billion investment to enhance infection prevention and control (IPC) activities across the U.S. public health and healthcare sectors. This funding is a commitment that will allow the United States to strengthen and equip state, local, and territorial public health departments and other partner organizations with the resources needed to better fight infections in U.S. healthcare facilities, including COVID-19 and other known and emerging infectious diseases.

These investments will: expand public health support to healthcare facilities and improve the quality of healthcare in our country, including addressing healthcare-related inequities, assist healthcare workers to prevent infections more effectively in healthcare settings, support rapid response to detect and contain infectious organisms, enhance laboratory capacity, and engage in innovation targeted at combating infectious disease threats, support state-based nursing home and long-term care strike teams to protect our most disproportionately affected populations from COVID-19, and help address the rise of healthcare-associated infections and resistant organisms, which increased as U.S. hospitals were inundated by COVID-19—reversing national progress seen prior to the pandemic. Improvements in IPC will span the healthcare continuum, including 6,000 hospitals, 15,400 nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, 7,900 dialysis clinics, and 4,700 ambulatory surgery centers, and will extend to other outpatient settings. “This funding will dramatically improve the safety and quality of the healthcare delivered in the United States during the pandemic and in the future,” said CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H. “Funding will provide significant resources to our public health departments and healthcare systems and opportunities to develop innovative strategies to protect every segment of the U.S. population, especially those disproportionately affected by the pandemic, at a time that they are hit hard.” Read the full media statement here

What is IPC? IPC saves lives. IPC prevents or stops the spread of infections in healthcare settings, protecting patients and healthcare workers. IPC includes tactics like hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), and patient placement. IPC Works! The right practices can stop germs from spreading in healthcare facilities. IPC is a Team Effort! Infection control is most effective when all team members use it consistently. IPC Matters! Infection control is a critical part of safe healthcare delivery in all healthcare settings. Learn more about IPC.

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